Bug solving speed: Novell or Mandriva, Gnome or KDE?

Linux promoters use to give as one of its advantages the speed with which the bugs are solved. Because many of the (now hundreds) bugs I submitted or commented are still rotting in various bugzillas, I decided to scientifically inspect this legend, more specifically in the case ofMandriva, Novell, RedHat, Gentoo, Gnome and KDE.

Methodology:

1. Half year is a timeframe big enough, bugs fixed after that are considered to be not fixed

2. From the pertinent bugzilla a list of bugs filed between 1.1.2006 and 30.6.2006 is retrieved, including the opening date, date of last change (should be +- the same as date of fixing for most) and their current status.

3. From the list must be removed bugs resolved as e.g. DUPLICATE, INVALID/NOTABUG, WORKSFORME, WONTFIX/CANTFIX, REPORTEDUPSTREAM - but only those that were classified this way during the 6 months period (183 days).

4. Bugs are counted as fixed if their status is FIXED (or equivalent - see e.g. RedHat)

5. The fixed bugs are then divided into categories based on the time it took to fix them - bugs fixed within 1,0 day, during 1,0-7,0 days, during 7,0-14,0 days, during 14,0-30,0 days, during 30,0-61,0 dnů, during 61,0-183,0 days. Bugs fixed later than 183 days after opening are considered as not fixed.

(A slight problem is that dumps from KDE and RedHat bugzillas contain only information about date, not about time, so they have a slight disadvantage as regards the 1 day fixes)

I did some comments on the results in the original, but as many people pointed out in the comments, the approach of every project is different, so use your brain and your knowledge/experience to figure out.

And remember: "the only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself" Winston Churchill.

FAQ:

Why is Debian/Ubuntu not included? Because the do not use bugzilla and I was not able to dump their data easily.

Why is XYZ not included? I do have only a finite amount of time available. You can do it yourself and let me know.